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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 29
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Job recalls his former prosperity and greatness—He was blessed because of his righteousness, his charity, and his good deeds.
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Moreover</span> Job continued his parable, and said,
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Oh that I were as <i>in</i> months past, as <i>in</i> the days <i>when</i> God preserved me;
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When his <sup>a</sup><a href="job/29/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR lamp.">candle</a> shined upon my head, <i>and when</i> by his light I walked <i>through</i> darkness;
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As I was in the days of my youth, when the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/29/4a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR friendship, confidence.">secret</a> of God <i>was</i> upon my tabernacle;
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When the Almighty <i>was</i> yet with me, <i>when</i> my children <i>were</i> about me;
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When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
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When I went out to the gate through the city, <i>when</i> I prepared my seat in the street!
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The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, <i>and</i> stood up.
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The princes refrained talking, and laid <i>their</i> hand on their mouth.
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The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
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When the ear heard <i>me,</i> then it blessed me; and when the eye saw <i>me,</i> it gave witness to me:
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Because I delivered the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/29/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 4: 26; D&C 42: 31 (30-31); D&C 104: 18.">poor</a> that cried, and the fatherless, and <i>him</i> <i>that had</i> none to help him.
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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
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I put on <sup>a</sup><a href="job/29/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>, and it clothed me: my judgment <i>was</i> as a robe and a diadem.
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I was eyes to the blind, and feet <i>was</i> I to the lame.
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I <i>was</i> a father to the poor: and the cause <i>which</i> I knew not I searched out.
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And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply <i>my</i> days as the sand.
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My root <i>was</i> spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
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My glory <i>was</i> fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
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Unto me <i>men</i> gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
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After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
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And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide <i>as</i> for the latter rain.
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<i>If</i> I laughed on them, they believed <i>it</i> not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
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I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one <i>that</i> comforteth the mourners.
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